This publication presents a panorama of the health situation of Bolivian youth in indigenous communities, with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive health, and analyzes strategies to attend to the needs of indigenous youth with a view to shaping future policies.

Family Care International and UNFPA conducted participatory research with girls, boys, their families and local leaders in three rural communities, and developed the A Better Future for Rural Girls: Manager's Briefing Kit. All of the content from this resource is available online in PDF.

Released as a CD-ROM containing a set of user-friendly tools, including 70 PowerPoint slides, a user’s manual, and additional resources, designed for use in developing and giving presentations on a range of sexual and reproductive health and rights topics. Content from the CD-ROM is enabled online.

This educational manual (“Notes on the impact that public policies have on safe motherhood and the sexual and reproductive health of indigenous women”) explains the implications of public policies; the role of civil society in shaping public policies; what they consist of; and how they are designed, decided, implemented and monitored. It helps to foster the role of community health agents in ensuring that the demands of indigenous organizations translate into culturally pertinent public health policies.

This document is a guide for systematizing best practices in prevention of adolescent pregnancy, based on government and civil society experience. It describes a process conducted in 2008 and 2009 by Ministries of Health from the six member countries of the Andean Plan to Reduce Unwanted Teenage and Adolescent Pregnancy (Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela) to analyze their teen pregnancy initiatives using a best-practices lens, and outlines lessons learned.

These training modules, adapted from ¡Cuídate!: Una guía de salud y bienestar, were developed for use by Bolivian health care providers for counseling women of childbearing age, pregnant women, and mothers of children under two. They contain comprehensive information on sexual and reproductive health and maternal health, including the rights to health and services of this population.

This set of publications (Curriculum for Training Parents: Communicating with Children, Adolescents, and Young People about Sexual and Reproductive Health), developed by FCI-Mali in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Mali, provides facilitators with a curriculum for helping Malian parents, through small group workshops, to learn to talk with their children and adolescents about contraception and other reproductive health issues. It is available in French, Arabic, and Bambara (Bamanankan), Mali’s three most common languages.

This publication, produced by FCI/Ecuador, ECUARUNARI, Interarts and FLACSO, with the support of AECID and the technical assistance of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador, presents the results of a survey on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of indigenous communities regarding HIV in Ecuador.

Flip chart addresses changes during puberty, STIs including HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, and unsafe abortion, as well as negotiating condom use, building healthy relationships, and communicating with parents.

Step-by-step guide to help local organizations develop, produce, and evaluate educational materials and messages for their communities. Includes sample messages, checklists and questionnaires, and a list of resources.

This Spanish-language guide is a tool to assess the unmet sexual and reproductive health needs of indigenous and rural young people; community groups involve youth directly in identifying their priorities and key issues. Results and recommendations from the application of the guide in rural communities of Panama and Bolivia are also available.

These briefing cards, published in 2012 by FCI and Population Action International as part of The Integration Partnership, provide information on integrating AIDS, TB, and malaria services across the reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health continuum of care. Available in both English and French, they highlight how integration can strengthen health and community systems, save money, and empower women to access the services they need and deserve.

Developed as part of the project “Cultural factors to prevent the spread of HIV among indigenous women in Ecuador,” this publication analyses public policies related to HIV and indigenous populations in Ecuador from an intercultural perspective.

This infographic highlights the critical role that midwives play in improving maternal and newborn health around the world. Midwives have a powerful voice in changing policies and practices that support the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of health services.

This publication is a tool for groups, organizations or individuals who want to engage in advocacy to promote the exercise of reproductive rights, in particular the prevention of unwanted teen pregnancies. The tool is intended to support, not only advocacy and communications strategies to influence public policy and participation, but also to foster citizenship, and expand the culture of democracy and human rights. It was prepared under the Andean Plan for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy (PLANEA).

The WHO guidelines on Preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries have been translated into Spanish by FCI with funding from UNFPA and WHO. These guidelines focus on two sets of key actions that aim to reduce the number of adolescent pregnancies in developing countries. The first set of actions seeks to prevent early pregnancy by preventing marriage before 18 years of age, increasing knowledge and understanding the importance of pregnancy prevention, increasing the use of contraception and preventing coerced sex. The second set of actions seeks to prevent poor reproductive outcomes by reducing unsafe abortions and by increasing the use of skilled antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care.

This advocacy publication, produced in 2007 by FCI and UNFPA for the Campaign to End Fistula, presents promising practices and strategic recommendations for policy makers, programmers, and researchers seeking strengthen fistula prevention and treatment programmes in affected countries.

A toolkit with additional advocacy tools (communications/strategic messaging guide, detailed descriptions of promising practices, multimedia resources, and Powerpoint presentation) was published in CD-ROM format in 2010 — most of those tools are also available for download here.

This Spanish-language publication, developed by FCI Bolivia, offers information on national and international legislation regulating cultural rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, women's rights, and health rights.

This toolkit, available in English, French and Spanish, is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and capacity of midwives, and of their national midwifery associations, to conduct advocacy for positive policy change. using evidence published in The State of the World's Midwifery (SoWMy) 2014 report.

Developed jointly by FCI, QAP and the Minister of Health of Ecuador, this manual intends to help health care managers facilitate a dialogue with mothers and traditional birth attendants to identify changes that can make facility-based delivery more acceptable to expectant mothers.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a framework for governments to reduce global poverty. This set of 8 reference cards provides clear, concise information on the links between sexual and reproductive health and the MDGs.

FCI has released an Advocacy Toolkit for Programme Managers that carefully lays out the steps in designing and launching an advocacy strategy to ensure that existing government commitments are translated into concrete programs and services. The Advocacy Training Guide, a companion piece to the Toolkit, was developed to strengthen the skills of grassroots community-level groups, networks, and organizations to design and plan an advocacy campaign.

These publications present the results of the national participatory workshops conducted in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, as part of the project “Indigenous Women: Health and Rights”, funded by UNFPA and the Spanish Agency for International Development (AECID).

“Indigenous women: sexual rights and reproductive rights” aims to meet the demand from Ecuadorian indigenous women and organizations for information about their sexual and reproductive rights, as guaranteed by the 2008 Constitution and other laws. It focuses on the indigenous perspective of “Good living” (Buen vivir), a physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual wellness, an integrated wholeness that is not limited to the absence of sickness.

Nearly 16 million girls between 15 and 19 give birth annually, almost all of them in developing countries. After a systematic review of the evidence, WHO has developed guidelines on Preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries, which focus on key actions that aim to reduce the number of adolescent pregnancies in developing countries. In 2012, in collaboration with WHO and UNFPA, FCI developed this advocacy toolkit, available in English, French, and Spanish, to promote the dissemination of the guidelines’ recommendations to policy makers and program planners globally. Designed for advocates, the toolkit encourages and enables evidence-based action among decision-makers, opinion leaders, medical personnel, researchers, and affected communities to prevent early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescent girls.

This document demonstrates the importance of expanding prevention efforts to underserved areas in the Amazonian District of Pando, located in the Bolivian lowlands between Brazil and Peru. The project includes an assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) related to HIV and AIDS in five indigenous communities.

In 2013, the Kenya Constitution introduced a devolved system of government that aims to enhance access to health services by all Kenyans, especially those in rural and hard-to-reach areas. Within this new context of devolution, the implementation of health policy commitments will shift: some policy issues will continue to be addressed through national mechanisms while implementation of health policy issues will now be addressed at the county level with the full involvement of local policy makers and health officials.

Family Care International and the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) developed this policy brief to provide guidance to civil society advocates on policy and decision-making structures, and avenues and opportunities for advocacy, in a context where the health system is devolved.

These briefing cards, produced by FCI on behalf of the Universal Access Project and a range of partners, detail the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and other key development issues including environmental sustainability, gender equality, economic growth, educational attainment, and broader health goals. They present key facts about the impact of SRHR on the broader development agenda and make recommendations for inclusion of SRHR in the post-2015 development framework.

Set of 9 easy to use reference cards covering key issues in sexual and reproductive health and rights. Each includes a definition, a quote from the ICPD Programme of Action or Fourth World Conference on Women, basic facts, and “areas for action.”

This collection of case studies was developed by JHPIEGO/Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, and Family Care International to demonstrate different approaches to influencing national policies on maternal and newborn health.

5-day training curriculum to improve the communication and interpersonal skills of health workers. Focuses on strengthening key skills such as active listening, using visual aids, and developing a client-responsive approach. Uses role plays and other practical approaches adapted to adult learners.

Evidence shows that investing in the capacity of midwives to provide high quality skilled delivery care translates into positive health outcomes for women, newborns, families, and communities. This report describes the actions taken by UNFPA, the International Confederation of Midwives, FCI, and partners to strengthen the role and competencies of professional midwives in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It begins with an overview of the key challenges faced in the region, followed by a description of the initiative’s main strategies and concluding with the partnership’s key achievements and lessons learned over the last three years, and recommendations for the future.

This collection of articles in Spanish, originally published in English in the reputed scientific magazine “The Lancet”, addresses the most pressing issues related to maternal survival and sexual and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Lancet, a premiere health journal, produced two special editions in 2006 on the important topics of Maternal Survival and Sexual and Reproductive Health. FCI also produced an Executive Summary for the Sexual and Reproductive Health Series to more broadly disseminate the key themes and recommendations of the Series.

Helps young people make informed decisions about their sexual lives by providing comprehensive information for adolescents on changes during puberty, sexuality and sexual health, pregnancy and contraception, STIs including HIV/ AIDS, sexual coercion and violence, substance abuse, building healthy relationships, communicating with parents, and planning for the future. The manual has been developed in fivelanguages and six different versions reflecting the regional contexts and the unique challenges facing adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.